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｡.:*･゜ﾟ･* tis the damn season

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I am literally your girlfriend let me in the goddamn clinic Harvey

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Make sure to always read the mod descriptions, requirements, AND the “Posts” tab of nexus mods!

Some of the links are to the chucklefish forums, which you have to have an account on to download the files.

Some of these may not work with the 1.5 update. To use them, you can move assets around, merge them with other mods, etc. The DIYCP Suite mod can possibly help if there’s a mod you want to use that no longer works! You can message me if you’re having trouble or check in with the page of the mod (linked above). Can’t promise I can help but I do like to problem-solve lol.

I will likely continue to edit and add to this post for my own benefit so the links may change from time-to-time <3

happy modding!

If this is your first time using mods and you’ve stumbled across this post, have no fear! Here’s a handy little guide for modding!

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Modding Necessities

SMAPI (must have this installed to mod - see instructions page linked above about modding stardew)

Content Patcher

Json Assets (I know that there have been some recent bugs with the 1.5 update so I am currently using an older version - 1.7.1 - that seems to work just fine)

PYTK

TMXL Map Toolkit

Spacecore

Some mods might also require Content Patcher Animations & Mail Framework Mod

General Utility (and some cheats)

Chests Anywhere

Tidy Crafting Menu

CJB Item Spawner (not recommended if you haven’t finished most things in the game before - it’s mostly something I use if I create a new save in lieu of not being able to continue another one so that I can catch up to where I was, or if I want to spawn furniture bc #aesthetic)

NPC Map Locations

Generic Mod Config Menu (I have never used this but I know a lot of mods suggest you do - it comes down to whether or not you want to configure your mods in-game or whether you’re content with doing your configuring outside of playing, using the config files!)

Recolors & Town Buildings

A Toned Down Stardew Valley (edits the interiors only if you configure it to do so)

A Wittily Named Recolor

Flower Valley (changes town buildings, too)

Starblue Valley

Eemie’s Just a New Map Recolor

Stardew Foliage Redone - original (changes town buildings, too; my personal favorite - I love the trees)

Stardew Foliage Redone - foliage only (if you just want the trees to use with another map recolor)

Vibrant Pastoral Recolor

DaisyNiko’s Earthy Recolor

Dreamy Valley

A Way Back Pelican Town (medieval town buildings)

Stardew Enhanced - The Town

Interface

Vintage Interface Multipack

Overgrown Flowery Interface

Farm Maps

White Water Farm

Rolling Hills Farm

Strawberry Fields Farm

Capitalist Dream Farm

Capitalist Dream Farm 2

Riverbend Farm

Waterfall Farm

Puffin Cove Farm

Forest Meadow Farm

Sycamore Farm

Mountain Goat Farm

Meadowlark Farm

Reimagined Standard Farm

Skull Island Farm

Craftables & Tools & Resources & Items

Gwen’s Medieval Craftables

Pastel Floral Tools

Yellog’s Wood Craftables (read the “Posts” tab)

Vintage Beehouses

Seasonal Path & Flooring

Shardust’s Fences Gates Flooring

Crystal Battery & Lightning Rod

Iridium Recolors

Better Artisan Goods

Better Resources

Better Gems and Minerals

Better Fish and Beach Foraging

Better Crops and Foraging

Ancient Crops

Blossom Trees

Seasonal Wildflowers

Witchy Decorations

Owl Scarecrows (plus deluxe scarecrow)

Ran’s Farm Decor

Misc Recolor Pack (for use with industrial furniture)

Witch Valley (cauldron & craftable potions)

PFM Cider Press & Ciders

Valley Herbalist

Animals & Pets

Elle’s Old Barn Animals

Elle’s New Barn Animals

Elle’s Old Coop Animals

Elle’s New Coop Animals

Elle’s Cat Replacements

Elle’s Dog Replacements

Elle’s New Horses

Elle’s Town Animals

NPCs

Seasonal Outfits

Diverse Stardew Valley - Seasonal

Diverse Mermaid Show

Shane’s New Job

Harvey Personality Mod

Penny Expanded

Many Dialogue Overhauls for NPCs

Farmhouse & Farm Buildings (my favorite part)

*Quick note: If you use one of these mods and the greenhouse is still vanilla, I might be able to help you, so just let me know! I’ve fixed that issue for myself with multiple mods and it is very easy to do!

Eemie’s Seasonal Victorian Buildings

Seasonal Witchy-Gothic Buildings

Yellog’s Wood Buildings

Enchanted Garden Buildings

Overgrown Fairy Buildings (there is a recolor also available)

Medieval Buildings

Spanish Revival Buildings

Wizard Style House and Greenhouse

Fairy Farmhouse

Seasonal Dutch Farm Buildings (you’ll need to use DIYCP Suite to use these buildings)

Hudson Valley Buildings

Seasonal Foresty Farm Buildings

Seasonal Japanese Buildings

Elle’s Seasonal Buildings

Flowery Pink Houses

Ali’s Modern Farm Buildings

Misc Individual Farm Buildings

Gwen’s Nexus Page - you can download individual buildings

Seasonal Dutch Farm Cabins

Gold Clock Sundial

MIDI’s Marchen Obelisk

Victorian Mailbox

Victorian Cabins

Shane’s White Coop and White Mailbox

Flowery Shipping Bin

Zen Garden Obelisk Earth and Water (to kind of match the Fairy buildings or the Wizard style house)

Interiors & Furniture

Cuter Coops and Better Barns

Seasonal Winery (replaces interior of Slime Hutch)

Seasonal Garden Farmhouse V2

F-SV Flumme Farmhouse Rooms Indoor (beautiful, needs a lil update for 1.5, though)

Rustic Country Town Interiors (for spouse rooms)

Industrial Kitchen & Interior

Industrial Furniture

Yellog’s Dark Brown & Cream Furniture

Prophet’s Bed Replacement

Boho Home Interior

Chic Cute Kitchen

CCS Kitchen Station Set (read “Posts” tab)

Arhen’s Beige Wood Tone Interior Set

Mi’s & Magimatica Country Furniture

Shardust’s Dynamic Interior 1.5 Update

Modern Gothic Interior

Eemie’s Classy New Interior - unofficial update

Mi’s Elegant Victorian Interior

Hot Spring Farm Cave

Oasis Greenhouse

Wren’s Expanded Greenhouse

Farmer Clothes, Hair, Hats, etc.

Witch Hats

Hairstyles Recolored

New Shirts & New Skirts

Coii’s All Hats Pack

Flower Crowns

Pretty Grass!

More Grass

Winter Grass

Wildflower Grass Field

Ali’s Flower Grass

Misc Mods

Mermaids Replace Old Mariner

Overgrown Mailbox

(I will continue to add random miscellaneous mods as I find more that I like!)

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SDV Mod Recs

ok so!! with 1.5 out, i have “pared down” my list of mods, and i wanted to share some recs!! as always, check for updates here before installing, but most of these are updated for the new game~

ESSENTIALS/QOL Changes DIVERSE STARDEW VALLEY (see nexus for previews) Karmylla’s Immersive Maps Chests Anywhere Combat Controls CustomDeathPenaltyPlus Festival End Time Tweak TimeSpeed WalkthroughTrellis Lore Friendly Joja Prices ToDew Joys of Efficiency SkullCavernElevator Rock Crab Recolors Crop Transplant TreeTransplant WearMoreRings AdoptSkin - update BetterJunimos UI Info - update Lookup Anything SkipIntro CJB Cheats & Item Spawn

ADDITIONS MoreGrass CustomCritters - update Deluxe Hats Immersive Shane Immersive Festival Dialogue Nice Messages Giftable Artifacts Fertilizer Anytime BetterBeachForage StrongerYou DIYCP Suite Colored Seeds FishPreview HomeSewingKit SitforStamina Get Glam Stardew Valley Reimagined 2 - not fully updated but mostly working, just disable town/railroad! recommended for a second playthrough Gender Neutrality Mod No More Dialogue Differences Tolerable Demetrius & Tomato Dilemma - requires a small edit to use both but i prefer the latter’s take on the tomato discussion!

AESTHETIC Sailor Styles Yellog Flower Dialogue Bath House Hotspring Mermaid Replaces Mariner Flowery Straw Hat Animated Mining Pack Elle’s Seasonal Buildings BetterArtisanGoodIcons

there’s LOADS more great mods, and im sure i missed some people’s faves! But these are mine ^o^

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I’ve spent much of 2021 thus far playing Stardew Valley in the hopes of distracting myself from the horrors of reality, and I keep meaning to make a list of mods I recommend! Because I am running a truly embarrassing number of mods and there are some really great ones that really improve the gameplay or add fun content or just make everything look really pretty! So without further ado, here are some of my favorite mods:

- Lookup Anything: This is probably my favorite mod. It basically eliminates the need to have to keep consulting the Stardew Valley wiki while you play. The title says it all: this mod lets you look up anything. Need to know what’s a good present for Shane? You can pull up a list of all his loved and liked gifts, with items you have on hand highlighted for ease, plus his birthday, how many hearts he has with you and how many points you need to get to the next heart. Need to know if you should hoard that pine sap or sell it? You can pull up all the uses for it, items that can be crafted with it, anyone who might like it, community center bundles it’s used for, and how much you make by selling. How many days until your melons are ready to harvest? What items can drop from that stone in the mines? What are all the items you can make with the furnace? It’s such a fantastically handy mod and I refuse to play without it!

- NPC Map Locations: One of the most frustrating things in the game is trying to remember everyone’s schedule and then not being able to find someone to give them a birthday present or turn in a quest item. This mod shows exactly where everyone is on your map and solves that problem for good!

- Automate: This mod automatically pulls items from nearby chests into machines, so you don’t have to keep running back and forth to your furnace to pick up the finished metal bars and toss more ore in there...it just spits the finished item back into the nearby chest, pulls in whatever available items you’ve got in the chest and starts running again without you having to do a thing! Just be careful of where you place your chests and machines or you might end up processing items you didn’t want to. Luckily, you can set individual chests to not have items pulled from them.

- Fishing Made Easy Suite: I suck at fishing. I almost never bother with fishing if I don’t have a mod to make it bearable. I like this one because it has different levels of easy-ness, so you can make fishing just 25% easier, or 50%, or 75%, or 99%! And there are some other fun perks too. You want to catch all fish regardless of weather or season? Want to catch legendary fish multiple times? Want to catch prismatic shards? Go nuts.

- Stardew Valley Expanded: This mod is absurdly huge and adds SO MUCH CONTENT. New areas! New characters! New events! I was a little hesitant to start it just because I knew there was so much to the mod and was a little concerned of how well it would mesh with the rest of the game, but the characters and story and style fit in perfectly with the vanilla content. I could almost forget Andy and Sophia weren’t there all along! The purpose of the mod was to make the game feel fresh and new for people who had already played the game and that’s exactly what it does. I love it.

- Artisan Valley/Project Populate JsonAssets/Starbrew Valley: I’m lumping these together but this is a collection of mods that add a TON of new items, crops, trees, flowers, machines and recipes to the game. You don’t have to download them all! You can pick and choose the ones you want, or download the PPJA content pack to get the bulk of these mods all in one go! I personally really love Artisan Valley because it lets me make floral candles and soaps. And an espresso machine so I can make fancy coffee. And Starbrew Valley so there’s actually a fun variety of alcohol in the game.

I’m putting the rest under a cut because this is getting too long.

- Chests Anywhere: Lets you access all of your chests from the menu! You can add some limitations, like only being able to access chests in the same location you’re in, but I’m dumb and constantly forget that I was supposed to bring a present for a villager with me today, or that I wanted to upgrade one of my tools but left all my metal bars at home. So instead of having to run all the way back to my farm, I can just open my menu and switch through the chests until I find the item I need! Labeling the chests also makes this a lot easier for organization.

- Seasonal Villager Outfits: Finally, the villagers have more than one set of clothes! This mod gives them different outfits in different seasons, different weather and special outfits for holidays! It’s cute and really improves the immersion to see the villagers wearing tshirts in the summer and bundling up in the winter, and dressing up for special events! Some characters will change their hairstyle too, which I love.

- Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion: Gives all characters more stuff to say so they won’t just repeat the same lines over and over! Also gives them varied dialogue for festivals starting in year 2, so they don’t say the same thing every year at the Egg Festival or Spirit’s Eve.

- Immersive Elliott: Add more dialogue! Lots more dialogue! I downloaded the Elliott version of this mod because that’s who I plan to marry but I recommend looking up dialogue mods for whoever your favorite characters are (I think there’s one for almost all the marriageable candidates.) You’ll probably be chatting a lot with whoever you’re trying to woo and it’s nice to get lots of new lines!

- Stardew Foliage Redone: There are tons of mods that change the colors and style of trees and buildings and stuff but this one is my favorite. It’s very soft and earthy and pretty without being overkill.

- The Love of Cooking: Actually makes cooking fun in Stardew Valley! It adds a cooking skill, an upgradable cooking tool that lets you cook with more ingredients (at the start you can only make one ingredient dishes), a cooking community center bundle, star levels to cooked items, an animation when you cook...cooking was very bland in the base game, and this mod really spruces the whole system up.

- Medieval Buildings/Medieval craftables: Again, there are so many mods that change up the look of your farm buildings and stuff but these are really pretty and cool and absolutely my style. There’s a mod to make all the town buildings have this style too, but I kind of like keeping the town normal and just living on my mysterious and beautiful farm apart from the rest of the world. My sprinklers are magic moss covered rocks now!

- Elle’s Dog/Cat/Horse/Barn/Coop/etc animals: Super cute animal skins. They look so huggable and soft. Also one of the dog options looks like my real life dog and that’s very important to me.

- Adopt ‘n’ Skin: Pairs well with the mods above, this mod lets you have multiple dogs/cats/horses and lets you use as many different skins as you like. I’ve got four cows and they’ve all got different patterns and colors. I love it. Also Marnie starts taking in stray animals and you can adopt them from her, which is a really cute way of letting you have more pets.

- Seasonal Garden Farmhouse: Its a pinch overkill especially in the early game, but I really like this farmhouse layout. It gives you a small kitchen from the start, a bathroom you can use to restore stamina, big open windows that change with the seasons and time of day...it’s a luxury house and it’s very nice to live in!

- Industrial Kitchen and Interior/Industrial Furniture/Rustic Country Town Interiors: These mods give the interiors and furniture a more rustic style, and the last one changes the town interiors to match. There are many furniture/interior mods, so if this style doesn’t do it for you, check out some of the others! There are lots of very pretty mods!

And I’m going to stop there but that’s only the tip of the iceberg and I highly recommend looking around NexusMods or ModDrop and seeing what kind of stuff is available!

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Stardew Tips for beginners

1. Don't cut your grass until you get a silo

2. Potatoes are a good spring crop

3. Spring onions are located on the bottom left map.

4. Upgrade your watering can the day before it rains, so that you can retrieve it the day after

5. The bag is a good, early investment. It cost 2000 for the first upgrade.

6. Hoard things. Hoard everything. Keep at least 1 of most things

7. Give villagers birthday gifts. Most will accept foraged items. Others will take crops.

8. Fishing is a good source of income (yes, it gets easier)

9. Save money for the Egg Festival and buy a ton of Strawberries. Save some for next spring, plant the rest

10. Don't try to do everything at once. Take your time, play at your own speed. You'll get there eventually.

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Stardew Valley: Fish Guide (places, seasons, weather, and times)

Just in case you don’t feel like constantly bringing the wiki up or you’re unable to (i.e. in a place with no wifi u can just save the pics to ur phone!)

One thing I forgot to add was that it has to be RAINING for the LEGEND

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Pro tip for new Stardew Valley players: there's an incredibly helpful wiki that can answer most questions you might have, quickly and conveniently!

I honestly probably wouldn't have gotten so into SDV if it weren't for this wiki, it's a lifesaver. There's no shame in looking something up! I've played nearly 1000 hours and I still look things up on the wiki every single time I play lol

https://stardewcommunitywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki

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i think concernedape should add a feature in stardew valley where - while looking at the map - you can find every villager and where they’re at at that moment, including whether they’re walking or just standing somewhere. this would lessen the time of me taking hours to find someone, for them not to be there. just a thought.

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decided to make another one of those stardew valley gifting / gift guide / tip :)

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Pro tip for new Stardew Valley players: there's an incredibly helpful wiki that can answer most questions you might have, quickly and conveniently!

I honestly probably wouldn't have gotten so into SDV if it weren't for this wiki, it's a lifesaver. There's no shame in looking something up! I've played nearly 1000 hours and I still look things up on the wiki every single time I play lol

https://stardewcommunitywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki

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Scenery/Background Study

Howl’s Moving Castle (Studio Ghibli) 2004

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“studio ghibli romances be like “what if we didn’t kiss, but instead both spiritually matured as people because we met each other.”

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and a girl appear in the same feature, a romance must insue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mentally inspire eachother to live-if I am able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.” -hayao miyazaki

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I think the reason I enjoy social interaction in journey/sky much more than I do in other games is that… it’s almost entirely wordless. (Well, in Sky, people often gesture to benches or place tables if they can, but…)

Like, I’m bad with words. Terrible at them. I never shut the hell up on here because I have time to properly read over what I type so that I know my point gets across, but in most online games, I just can’t think of what to say or type fast enough. I stumble over words verbally a lot because my brain moves faster than my mouth, and my hands are just an even slower version of that. It’s dreadful. If you have ever met me in a chatroom, I am so sorry.

But anyway, with games that rely less on words, it’s way less stressful. Everyone knows that walking in circles around someone and beeping at them is a friendly gesture! Beeping excitedly is a universal “Yay!/come here!/I’m terrified about what just happened there, oh geez!” and like. it takes so little time, and you don’t have to worry about language barriers or coming across as strange or aggressive due to phrasing, and just. I could go on and on but I feel like I’m running out of ways to put this that isn’t just “this is great for my occasionally nonverbal self, I wish I had a friendly beep button irl and that running circles around strangers and friends on the street did not make them think poorly of me.”

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I love how this last quest showed us a side of mantas we’ve never seen.

I mean, mantas are usually seen as big, kind and gentle creatures, mostly with smaller creatures.

But let’s not forget they’re strong as heck and could drop a building if they wanted to.

And now that I think of it, a big manta could drop not one, but three big rocks full of darkness! And more than three times it’s own size

And the whale we see in orbit could drop a building as big as those rocks. Even a little bit bigger if I remember correctly.

It means that, for the whale, that building was just a little thing compared with everything they could smash with the strength they have.

So remember kids, light creatures are strong and could destroy entire mountains if they feel endangered or angry.

And don’t mess with smaller mantas cuz they have a bigger one looking for them.

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